The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-03-19
She took the pistol from the drawer;

dress went to her apartments. As she
Quilted the library she found NJ. Seasons
valet at the door. He turned aside and
made no remark, and she passed on in
silence. On reaching the apartments &C.
Gu ied by herself and her husband, she
found her children busy packing. She
placed the revolver behind vase on the
mantclpiece without being observed.
When W. Sa>son returned home in the
evening he found his house deserted.
The valet told him that his wife and
children lad departed together, having
first packed several trunks, which they
had taken with them.
Il saw madame go to your bureau in
the library the valet said at the conclu-
sion OF his story.
". Sasson went to the library and ex-
amined the bureau.
"My revolver has been removed" he
said
81 saw madame quit the library" the
valet sad, holding by her side some
thing which vas concealed by the drap-
cry"
In the evening Nine. SasSon discov-
cred that sho had left large sum of
date need Of this sum, and how to get it
was the subject of much thought. She
determined to say nothing of it to her
children for fear Charles should insist
upon going to their former residence for
it, anil thus perhaps be brought into COL
lision with his father Finally she de-
vised n scheme. She had the keys of the
side entrance to the garden and of a pri-
vate entrance from the garden to the
house. She thought that in tn darkness
she could easily find admission to
the welling-house. reach UMPIRE
ceived the boudoir, procure the
money, and return without any
ones being the wiser for her adven-
ture. To get her children out Of the
way she suggested that they should visit
her brother, who resided a mile away,
and communicate to him the step she had
taken. AS soon as they were gone she
quilted her sisters house unknown to
any one but her maid, whom she had
taken with her, and, procuring a cab,
went to within hundred yards of her
former residence in the Boulevard de
Neuilly. Directing the driver to wait
for her return she went toward the
dwelling, opening the gate into the gar
den with caution; she left it a ar and
crossed TIL lawn to a side door. This
she also lett ajar, being afraid that the
closing of it might arouse the inmates.
Without difficulty or molesta.ion she as
cended the stairs and succeeded in get
ting possession Of the money. She quit
ted the house, still leaving the side door
aiar, but on passing out of the garden
she closed the gate and hastily walked
toward the cab She reached her sisters
house before her children returned and
without her absence having been no
ticed.
The next morning VI. Sasson failed to
call for his valet as usual. After waiting
for so re time, according to the Wallets
statement, he went to his masters apart
ment and found him lying in bed with
bullet hole in his head. On the coverlet
lay his revolver. His watch and purse
We're missing. His wardrobe had been
ransackcd and his escritoirc broken open.
There was 20 doubt that the assassin had
been at work.
The Judge Of Instruction and his Of
ficers investigated the case and arrived
VI IN CONCLUSION tnat murdcr ana ROD
berry had been done.
The valet told what he knew about the
family troubles and the fact of Nme.
SassOn and her cir ldrcn having left their
home the previous day ON account of
what had passed between mon ieur and
his wife and son. Then the valet re-
lated the Incident of the revolver.
But how had any one entered the
housed Jean Chauban, the valet, testi-
fed that early in the morning, as he was
taking the milk at the garden floor, he
observed that the side door of the house
was aiar. and going in that way closed
IL after him 'Ihn ,rarinn ", a hio,I, hut